A user requested to indicate on a view visual overview which DMA of the Failover pair is currently active. In short, there are 2 sites (site A & site B). The DMS consists of a single Failover pair which has the online and offline DMA spread across the 2 sites.
The visual overview displays the two sites and would need to highlight the site which is currently hosting the online agent (green highlighted border around the site).
Would there already be some Visio shape data which will allow us to configure this or do we need to implement a custom protocol which will present this information on parameter level so that the visual overview can implement this via Show / Hide shape data linked towards these parameters?
Another solution without making use of a protocol, is to launch an automation script when the Visio drawing is opened. The script performs an SLNet call to retrieve the online DMA, and pushes the result into a session variable.
That should be quite straightforward to implement, and always accurate.